The Air Changes the Colour of things Here... - solo

2009-14: THE AIR CHANGES THE COLOUR OF THINGS HERE… dance-theatre solo

Performances:
LONDON: LOST Theatre One Act Festival, LEWISHAM ART GALLERY, HACKNEY EMPIRE, SHUNT Vaults, Moving Moveable Feast, GO-LIVE
BEIRUT: ZOUKAK Theatre, Sidewalks

Photo Vasilis Giziakis

Photo Jason Wen

Photo Dafne Louzioti

Photo Chiara Contrino

'... Vanio Papadelli, making conversations with her lost mother, took the stones in her hand both metaphorically and physically and was certainly one of those gems. The Air Changes the Colour of Things Here, on 29 March, drew on memory, autobiography, and fiction. Papadelli spoke throughout, the depth of her voice commanding yet tentative, dominating yet vulnerable. Her voice and movements meshed into something somewhat brutal and ugly. Her fidgeting body curled up on a fur rug closely surrounded by her audience, sitting on the floor, set up the intimacy of the coming conversation... Just as the moonlight appeared outside the three arched windows, the lighting dimmed to reveal a Madonna-like figure, framed like an altarpiece by the architecture of the hall. A video projected onto her body as she sat on the windowsill of the central tall arched window seemed to resolve the emotional trauma of her journey.' (Rebecca JS Nice, Total Theatre, 21 April 2014)

'...An unusual and all encompassing piece of theatre ... Papadelli evidently has a secure grasp of the power of simplicity on stage, creating striking images with simply a rug and atmospheric writing. The movement is fluid and complemented by the sound of rain on a marble floor... I have to admire this dedicated, inventive and accomplished work' (Paul Vale)